Monthly Archives: July 2011

Jason Orton’s latest photographs from the Olympic Park site, as things shift from the grubby earthworks of raw regeneration through to the banality of utopia-in-waiting. One person who won’t be at all impressed by Orton’s photographs is Iain Sinclair, who … Continue reading →

Some photographs by Andrew Meredith. Projects include Slaughtermen and Weston-super-Mare. His tumblr has a fabulous image, ‘Beneath the Mountain‘, taken ‘deep below the surface of the artificial mountains underneath the old Polar Bear enclosure in Londons historic Zoo’, otherwise known … Continue reading →

Futurism. Everything new is old. A look at some of the The shuttle’s potential successors. Unbelievably, Boeing’s X-20 Dyna-Soar concept (one of the best spaceship names ever) dates back to 1958, over two decades before the Shuttle project came to … Continue reading →

We love absurd and obscure simulators. Classic flight simulation is all very well, but it’s the lovingly crafted virtual recreations of quirky machines and processes that fascinates us, such as this Street Cleaning Simulator (via RPS). It appears to be … Continue reading →

Wandering Eye, a tumblr / Bojkowski, book cover tumblr / On the Borderland / Nina Perlman / a lula me contou / old lawrence / Ministry of Propoganda (is it just us, or is the old term ‘they have a … Continue reading →

Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the game. An 8-bit experiment in non-linear narratives (far too strange for us, at the time) / strange maps: where is the Island of Sodor? / see also the round-up of fictional maps and imaginary places … Continue reading →